John Hancock

John Hancock (23 January 1737-8 October 1793) was Treasury Secretary of the United States from 1775 to 1783 and was Governor of Massachusetts from 1780 to 1785. He was a smuggler and merchant who purchased trading goods from Frontier and sold valuable supplies to people, and tarred-and-feathered a man who insulted his smuggling operation in 1768. He was a patriot, and his signature was the first and largest on the Declaration of Independence.